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Thursday, December 1, 2011

Nightlife / 206 Cure 86's Robert Smith

Posted by on Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 9:30 AM

No Cure at Cure
  • No Cure at Cure
I was drinking at Cure last week. It’s the greatest place where you can chill out and quietly drink wine and eat a grilled cheese, but still get to spy on Cal Anderson bike polo kids swigging vodka out of orange juice cartons and watch blacked out people from Rock Box spill into the alley. After five or so glasses of wine I was feeling very clever and tried to ask the charming owners Amy and Eric why they weren’t playing the Cure all the time. "Because we don't want people thinking we named our bar after a goddamn band. There is no Cure allowed to be played at Cure, EVER. When it comes up on Pandora, we thumbs down it.” And someone next to me “Yeah... they don’t want a bunch of sad teenagers in here anyway<.” I asked them if they would turn away Robert Smith if he came in, and they said that yes...they expect that they probably would. So that's that, he is 86'ed. It’s too bad, because Robert Smith seems like the sort of guy who would like GC.

 

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in-frequent 1
my, the cure doth protest too much, no?

regardless, it's a rather overly emotional and dour response.
Posted by in-frequent on December 1, 2011 at 11:46 AM
Dean Fawkes 2
There goes my idea to open up a bar called Sheep On Drugs.
Posted by Dean Fawkes http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Author?oid=479789&section=Blogs on December 1, 2011 at 12:42 PM
3
This bar is great. I've been in twice where someone buys a round for the bar. Which is insane considering 1) that only happens in movies and 2) it's kind of a nicer, classier place.
Posted by itsneverthateasy on December 1, 2011 at 2:27 PM
4
terrrrrrific bar. love amy & eric.
Posted by deepconcentration on December 2, 2011 at 10:30 AM
in-frequent 5
What's the story behind their Pierre Robert Smith Triple Cream? And for $10.15?
Posted by in-frequent on December 2, 2011 at 10:02 PM
Rabid Child Images 6
well here's an idea...call your bar something that's not a hugely popular band.
Posted by Rabid Child Images http://flickr.com/photos/rabidchildimages/sets on December 9, 2011 at 9:57 PM

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